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\c 50
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\p
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\v 1 This is also what Yahweh says:
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\q1 "You Israelite people, do not think that I forced your parents to be exiled to Babylonia
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\q2 like some men send away their wives
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\q1 after giving them a paper
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\q2 on which they state that they were divorcing them!
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\q1 I certainly did not get rid of you like a man who sells his children to get money to pay what he owes.
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\q1 No, the reason that I forced you to be exiled
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\q2 was to punish you because of the sins that you have committed.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 2 When I came to you to rescue you,
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\q2 why did no one answer when I called out to you?
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\q1 Was there no one there to buy you back and take you home?
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\q2 Did you think that I do not have the power to rescue you?
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\q1 Think about this:
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\q2 I can speak to a sea and cause it to become dry!
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\q1 I can cause rivers to become deserts
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\q2 with the result that the fish in the rivers die from thirst and rot.
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\q1
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\v 3 I cause the sky to become dark,
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\q2 as though it was wearing black clothes because it was mourning because someone had died."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Yahweh our God has taught me to speak for him,
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\q2 in order that I may encourage those who are weary.
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\q1 Each morning he awakens me,
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\q2 in order that I may listen to what he teaches me.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh our God has spoken to me,
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\q2 and I have not rejected what he told me;
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\q2 I have accepted it.
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\q1
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\v 6 I allowed people to beat me on my back
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\q2 and to pull out the whiskers in my beard because they hated me.
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\q1 I did not turn away from them
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\q2 when they made fun of me and spat on me.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 But because the Lord Yahweh helps me,
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\q2 I will never be humiliated.
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\q1 Therefore I am determined to face difficulties,
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\q2 and I know that nothing will cause me to be ashamed.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 God is near to me; he will show others that I have been right to trust him,
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\q2 so if anyone stands in front of me and accuses me in a court,
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\q2 he will not be able to show that I have done anything that is wrong.
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\q1
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\v 9 The Lord Yahweh defends me in court,
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\q2 so no one will be able to condemn me.
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\q1 All those who accuse me will disappear
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\q2 like old clothes that have been eaten by moths.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 If you honor Yahweh
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\q2 and do what his servant tells you to do,
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\q1 even if you are walking in darkness, and it seems that there is no light,
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\q2 trust in Yahweh your God to help you; depend on him.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 11 But you people who oppose me by lighting your own fires,
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\q2 and by carrying your own flaming torches:
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\q1 go ahead and live according to your own knowledge,
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\q2 according to what you think is best.
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\q1 Yahweh tells you what will happen to you:
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\q2 he will make you die in great torment!
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